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| Quotations of the Day: August 2000 |
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August 31, 2000
Unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.
—Dean Rusk
August 30, 2000
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
—Publius Syrus
August 29, 2000
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.
—Pope Pius XII
August 28, 2000
Once a place becomes special, it’s no longer special.
—Peter Storey
August 27, 2000
I almost always urge people to write in the first person…. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
—William Zinsser
August 26, 2000
While there is one untrodden tract / For intellect or will, / And men are free to think and act, / Life is worth living still.
—Alfred Austin
August 25, 2000
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
—Barnett Brickner
August 24, 2000
I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
—Henry R. Luce
August 23, 2000
When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday.
—Saint Augustine
August 22, 2000
Deep vers’d in books, and shallow in himself.
—John Milton
August 21, 2000
Take care of those who work for you and you’ll float to greatness on their achievements.
—H.S.M. Burns
August 20, 2000
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
—Van Wyck Brooks
August 19, 2000
Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
—Austin Farrer
August 18, 2000
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
—Albert Gore, Jr.
August 17, 2000
Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, / And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
—Edward Moore
August 16, 2000
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
—James Russell Lowell
August 15, 2000
How fading are the joys we dote upon! / Like apparitions seen and gone. / But those which soonest take their flight / Are the most exquisite and strong.
—John Norris
August 14, 2000
Having served on various committees, I have drawn up a list of rules: Never arrive on time; this stamps you as a beginner. Don’t say anything until the meeting is half over; this stamps you as being wise. Be as vague as possible; this avoids irritating the others. When in doubt, suggest that a subcommittee be appointed. Be the first to move for adjournment; this will make you popular; it’s what everyone is waiting for.
—Harry Chapman
August 13, 2000
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
—Henry Hancock
August 12, 2000
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy—the mother.
—Claudette Colbert
August 11, 2000
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
—Agha Hasan Abedi
August 10, 2000
To keep your marriage brimming, / With love in the loving cup, / Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; / Whenever you’re right, shut up.
—Ogden Nash
August 9, 2000
A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you’ve got to go on.
—William Thomas Piper
August 8, 2000
To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
—Carl Sagan
August 7, 2000
All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream.
—Edgar Allan Poe
August 6, 2000
She’s got what I call bobsled looks: going downhill fast.
—Craig Nova
August 5, 2000
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
—George Orwell
August 4, 2000
I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
—B.F. Skinner
August 3, 2000
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
—Edward R. Murrow
August 2, 2000
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor’s finger.
—Andy Warhol
August 1, 2000
It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.
—Dan Greenberg
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